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" The Licliens of the district are mostly in very good 

 condition, and would well repay careful working through 

 from an ecological point of view, a remark which may be 

 made also with regard to the algae." 



The two excellent illustrations which form figs. 1 

 and 2 are from photographs taken by Dr. Darbishire, and 

 represent some of the students that formed the Easter 

 party at work both outside and in the Laboratory. For 

 the use of the blocks we are indebted to the courtesy of 

 the " Owens College Union Magazine," where an interest- 

 ing article appeared in June on the Biological Station and 

 the work of the Easter party, written by one of the occu- 

 pants of the Owens College work-table, 



Fishery Work. 



Although a certain amount of work, both directly and 

 indirectly bearing upon local fisheries, has gone on in the 

 past at Port Erin, it is evident that much more will have 

 to be done in the future. In the past we have had, for 

 example, the experimental hatching of various flat fish 

 and Gurnards and the experimental and observational 

 work on Oysters and disease, but in future fish hatching 

 and lobster rearing will be undertaken on a large scale 

 in the new hatchery, and various fisheries problems will 

 be investigated in the adjoining Aquarium and Labora- 

 tory. With a view to his new duties in that direction, 

 the Committee gave the Curator a few weeks' special leave 

 of absence last spring in order that he might spend that 

 time at the Lancashire Sea-fish Hatchery at Piel, at the 

 height of the hatching season, so as to learn by actual 

 handling and co-operation the details of the methods 

 practised at that establishment. Mr. Chadwick has also 



